Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-12-02
BRIEFLETS.
Lettuce and Quail at MAYS.

Lettuce and quail at Mays.
Hardware at cost at the Mott store.
The Mott stock of hardware will be
sold at cost
Celery, poultry and oysters at c. G.
Truesdale's.
Everything new and first class at the
Mott hardware store.
The little rolks have commenced thinks
ing of Santa Claus.
| The j. T. Mott hardware and..wagon
stock is going at cost.
The annual meeting of the Him club |
occurs next Tuesday evening.
Mrs Mott has concluded to sell her
stock of hardware at cost
Geo. Davenport lodge, Sons of St.
George, meets on Friday evening.
Dressed poultry. oysters. celery and
nice eating apples at C. j. Longs.
The missionary guild of Trinity church
holds its monthly meeting at the church
tonight,
Count Magri and wife-Mrs. Tom
Thumb-and company ale at the Harper
house.
Miss Kate Byrnes is improving, and
there are now strong hopes for her res
covery.
Bridge Keeper Sweeneys tolls at the
Rock river bridge amounted to S532 20
in November.
All those wanting hardware of any de-
scription can now get what they want at
cost at Motifs store
Nice Malaga grapes. % cents per
pound. and bananas by the bunch or
dozen, at Boros, under the bank.
Overseer of the Poor Engel distributed
! 1902 IS for charitable purposes mostly
coal-during the month of November.
Chas. E Case, who has been in the city
few days, returned to his duties as clerk
= of the supreme court at Ottawa last
Is evening.
. Judge Adams is holding county court
: in the circuit court room this afternoon.
) he being engaged in the Jury trial of the
l. case of Naylor VS. Borden, suit over a
ii reaper.
: The Y W. c. T. L. will celebrate its
'e first anniversary tomorrow afternoon
at 3 o'clock in the Y.M c. A. rooms
All friends to the cause of temperance are
4 very cordially invited.
J. Through a typographical error. The
ARGUS last evening, mentioned Mr.. Bic
saudi" as the conductor who won tn,
silver mounted lantern at Greensburg
Kan, recently. The name should hav
been "Bisant"
David Sewers an old and highly re
spected citizen OF Mercer county, resd
ing about two miles from Reynolds post
office, died on Tuesday of Bright's dis
Is. ease of the kidneys, and was buried We:
terday. He was 60 years of age, and on
A. of the best known men in this region
f. Harry Smythe, who was recently mar
ager of the Harper house bar and prev
Gus to that in business for himself und,
Harper's theatre, has been engaged |
Lothar Harms, TO have charge of b
restaurant, corner Of First avenue an
Eighteenth street.
wo December derives its name from Il
latin, deem. ten, as in the Roman yea
* instituted by Romulus, beginning wi
March, it was the tenth month, 1t Al
swers to the Jewish Tabeth esther
va 16) which signifies miry, and is the four
10 of their civil and tenth of their sscr
per year.
at Charles Dickens should be in Moll
the soon after Christmas. He expects 10 {
of his Christmas dinner in Chicago W
.ad Henry Irving, the English actor TIL,
is very little time left for Moline peol
om- to do the courteous thing for their dc
very guest, Francis Jeffrey Dickens, before
are live brother arrives. That negleci
., grave should be made presentabe, if
. - would retain the favorable impress
Is created when we turned out to the fune
'ork of the son of their eminent novelist, dy
OIL so far from home.-Moline Dispatch.
d in The Henry county Netos says t
red, Presiding Elder Cool proposes to br
the delinquent Methodists to time He S
In that in most places about two>thirds
all the congregation do all the payi
ents Hereafter he proposes that the chu
.rper officials report who pays, and those '
lie do not will be looked after. If they n
help they will be helped out of
church funds. If they are able to ?
*. and refuse, he wants to know it.
Dec. Mr.. and Mrs. Gilpin Moore retur
home from California this morning, b
ing been absent from the city about
months. Their trip extended all thro
'ident the Golden state, down into Old Me,
and they travelled quite extensively
Colorado on their home bound journ
In California, Mr. and Mrs Moore sa
great number of former Rock Island F,
ple-the Darts and Spencers among q
ers.
They were buying Christmas prese
when Johnny remarked: Now
something more, mamma, you've got